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CAMPAIGN CONFIDENTIAL
During the post-election scramble in 2000, the entire election seemed to hinge on how Jews voted — or at least punched out the chads on their butterfly ballots — in three South Florida counties, Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade, which are thought to contain about a half-million Jews. Returning to the Sunshine State for this…
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Newsdesk November 5, 2004
Bank Boycott Called Israeli Holocaust survivors called Tuesday for a consumer boycott of banks that have not published reports of dormant accounts belonging to Holocaust victims. The special Knesset committee established to look into this matter has reported that about 5,000 such accounts, with about $225 million in assets, exist. Publication of the report, however,…
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Arafat Wants a ‘New’ President Bush
Yasser Arafat hopes that President Bush will change his Middle East policies, a Palestinian official said. “I think that, like all Palestinians, he is waiting to see what President Bush is going to do to revert to a policy of peace rather than a policy of war,” Palestinian official Leila Shahid said Wednesday in France,…
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Kerry’s Stepson: ‘Misquoted on Israel’
John Kerry’s stepson said he was misquoted in a story that said he regarded Israel as the “51st state” of America. Chris Heinz was quoted in Philadelphia Magazine as saying, “One of the things I’ve noticed is the Israel lobby, the treatment of Israel as the 51st state, sort of a swing state.” The quote…
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Groups Worried by GOP’s Domestic Agenda
WASHINGTON — Tuesday’s Republican blitz triggered a wave of deep disappointment among Jewish organizational officials, who are openly worrying about the fate of their liberal domestic agenda now that the GOP has strengthened its control over the White House and Congress. In particular, several Jewish communal leaders bemoaned the defeat of Senate Minority Leader Tom…
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Palestinian Leader’s Illness Changes Political Equations in Israel
TEL AVIV — After days of furious maneuvering to prepare for the post-Yasser Arafat era, Israelis and Palestinians were waking up this week to the sobering realization that reports of the Palestinian leader’s demise might have been premature. “Arafat’s prospects for recovery range between full recuperation and death,” Israel’s military intelligence chief, Major General Aharon…
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Chagall and the Village, Restored
LETTER FROM VITEBSK The town of Vitebsk has been the central character in the work of Marc Chagall. Its people and cityscape maintain a recurring, almost mystic presence. Chagall was intimately familiar with this town. The artist was not only born and raised there, but also came of age as a master in Vitebsk. Although…
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Israeli Author Wins European Literary Award
Aharon Appelfeld, one of Israel’s most celebrated novelists and a writer internationally renowned for haunting depictions of a child’s survival of the Holocaust, was awarded the Prix Médicis Etranger, France’s top literary award for a foreign writer and one of Europe’s most important awards, last Wednesday. Previous Médicis prize laureates include John Updike, Philip Roth…
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Between Two Evenings
From Morton Steinberg comes this query: “A word in Hebrew that has always troubled me is tsohorayim, ‘noon,’ which is in the dual plural form. Is the proper greeting for ‘good afternoon’ tsohorayim tov [with the adjective tov, ‘good,’ in the singular] or tsohorayim tovim [with the adjective in the plural]? And why is the…
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President Re-elect Bush Faces Benchmark Test On Iranian Nukes Policy; Washington Urges Israel To Cultivate Post-Arafat Ties
Fresh off of victory, President Bush will face a major test in the coming weeks on the multilateral approach he has adopted toward Iran’s alleged pursuit of nuclear weapons. Even as Washington is backing European efforts to pressure Tehran, the newly re-elected president is looking to the United Nations Security Council to pick up the…
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DER YIDDISH-VINKL November 5, 2004
Ruth Rubin’s book “Jewish Folk Songs,” published about a half-century ago, remains one of the treasure troves of Yiddishkeit in America. The multitalented Rubin was a performer, a recording artist and a translator of Yiddish folk songs into English. What follows is one of her masterpieces, titled “Sheyn Bin Ikh, Sheyn.” Sheyn Bin Ikh, Sheyn…
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